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Mighty Atom
Mighty Atom may refer to: People Sports * Jimmy Wilde (1892–1969), Welsh boxer * Sydney Wooderson (1914–2006), English athlete * Joe Greenstein (1893–1977), Polish-American strongman * Barbara Buttrick (born 1929), English female boxer * Eileen Sheridan (1923–2023), English cyclist Other fields * Mildred Albert (1905–1991), American fashion show producer and fashion personality * Bruce Forsyth (1928–2017), British entertainer, known in his early career as Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom * Albert Power (1870–1948), Irish priest, academic and author Film and television * "The Mighty Atom" (''Thunderbirds''), the 14th episode of the first season of the Supermarionation television series ''Thunderbirds'' * ''Mighty Atom'' (TV series), a 1959 Japanese Tokusatsu live action TV show * ''The Mighty Atom'', a 1958 animated short film featuring Reddy Kilowatt Other uses * ''Mighty Atom'' (1988 video game), published by Konami * ''Mighty Atom'' (1994 video game), published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Wilde
William James Wilde (12 May 1892 – 10 March 1969) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. He simultaneously held the National Sporting Clubs British flyweight title and the World Flyweight championship from 1916 to 1923. Often regarded as the greatest British fighter of all time, he was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter Charley "Broadway" Rose, as "the Greatest Flyweight Boxer Ever". Wilde earned various nicknames, such as "The Mighty Atom", "Ghost with the Hammer in His Hand", and "The Tylorstown Terror" due to his bludgeoning punching power. While reigning as the world's greatest flyweight, Wilde would take on bantamweights and even featherweights, and knock them out. Early years Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate states that he was born in the Taff Bargoed Valley community of Pentwyn Dei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Wooderson
Sydney Charles Wooderson MBE (30 August 1914 – 21 December 2006), dubbed "The Mighty Atom", was an English athlete whose peak career was in the 1930s and 1940s. He set the world mile record of 4:06.4 at London’s Motspur Park on 28 August 1937. This record stood for nearly five years. Biography Born in Camberwell, London, he was 5 ft 6 in and weighed less than 9 stone (126 lbs). He attended Sutton Valence School, Kent. At 18 he became the first British schoolboy to break 4min 30sec for the mile. He won the British mile title for the five years up to the outbreak of the war in 1939. In 1934 he won the silver medal in the one mile event at the British Empire Games. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he suffered an ankle injury and failed to qualify for the 1500 metres final. However, in 1937, after surgery, his performance increased and culminated in his world mile record of 4:06.4 in 1937. In 1938 he set world records in the 800 m and 880 yards with times o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Greenstein
Joseph L. Greenstein (January 2, 1893 – October 8, 1977), better known as The Mighty Atom, was a 20th-century strongman known for highly unusual feats of strength and endurance. Life and career Early life Greenstein was born to a Jewish family in Suwałki, Poland, in 1893. As a child he suffered from respiratory ailments, and at age 14, a team of doctors predicted he would die from tuberculosis. Around that time, he became acquainted with a Russian circus strongman, Champion Volanko, who mentored Greenstein. Greenstein traveled with Volanko and the Issakoff Brothers Circus for eighteen months, learning the strongman's training regimen. After this, he returned to Poland and married his wife, Leah. Career He began his career as a wrestler. However, due in part to rising anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, he then left for the United States. He first went to Galveston, Texas, working as a dockworker and oil field worker. He also wrestled professionally at this time as Kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Buttrick
Barbara Buttrick (born 3 December 1929), nicknamed "Battling Barbara", is a retired British boxer and a world champion in women's boxing in the 1940s and 1950s. Originally from England, Buttrick is considered a pioneer of women's professional boxing. Professional career Buttrick was born in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England on 3 December 1929. She became a shorthand typist in an office in the West End of London. Known as "The Mighty Atom of the Ring", Buttrick, at 4′ 11″, fought from 98 lbs. to being the World's unbeaten flyweight (112) and bantamweight (118) champion from 1950 to 1960. Buttrick started her boxing career in 1948, touring Europe with carnivals as a bantamweight in the boxing booth. She went to the United States in the mid-1950s, joined the carnival circuit, but left because the American carnivals were rougher than the European ones. She then fought professionally in Canada, Chicago, and southern Florida. One of the Canadian matches became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Sheridan (cyclist)
Constance Eileen Sheridan ( Shaw, 18 October 1923 – 12 February 2023) was an English cyclist who specialized in time trialing and road record-breaking. She broke all the records of the Women's Road Records Association during the late 1940s and 1950s. They included Land's End to John o' Groats, previously held by Lilian Dredge. Amateur career Eileen Sheridan, 4 ft 11in (150 cm) tall as an adult and described by historian Bernard Thompson as "a dainty lady", was an athletic girl at school in Coventry, where she was born Constance Eileen Shaw in 1923. Cycling dominated other sports at the age of 15 and in 1944 she joined the Coventry Cycling Club.The Bicycle, UK, 18 November 1953, p27 There she went touring and joined club rides without being interested in racing. She said: "It is on club runs that the club spirit is found, if they have a spirit at all, and retained for all time. Coventry club runs number among the happiest moments in my life." She rode her first race, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Albert
Mildred Elizabeth Albert (née Levine; January 14, 1905 – August 26, 1991) was an American fashion commentator, modeling agency director, fashion show producer, radio and television personality, and society columnist. Known as the "Mighty Atom" and Boston's "First Lady of Fashion", she produced thousands of fashion shows during her career. She founded the Academie Moderne finishing school in 1936 and co-founded the Hart Model Agency in 1944. After selling both concerns in 1981, she remained active on the Boston fashion scene, covering fashion shows and hosting charity benefits, which earned her the title of "official grande dame" of Boston. Early life and marriage Mildred Elizabeth Levine was the youngest of four children born in Russia to Thomas Levine and Elizabeth Sugarman Levine. The family, who were Jewish, left Russia following pogroms and immigrated to the United States when Mildred was three months old, settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Her father worked in constructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was an English entertainer and television presenter whose career spanned more than 75 years. Forsyth came to national attention from the late 1950s through the Associated Television, ITV series ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''. He went on to host several game shows, including ''The Generation Game'', ''Play Your Cards Right'', ''The Price Is Right (British game show), The Price Is Right'' and ''You Bet!''. He co-presented ''Strictly Come Dancing'' from 2004 to 2013. During his time as host of ''The Generation Game'', Forsyth began using what would become his signature 'call and response' greeting with the studio audience, "It's nice to see you, to see ''you''...", to which the audience would loudly reply, "Nice!"; he used this on many shows he later hosted for the rest of his career. Forsyth was also known for his "The Thinker" pose, emulating Auguste Rodin, Rodin's sculpture, which he used on many sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Power (priest)
Albert Power SJ (12 November 1870 – 12 October 1948) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, academic and author. He was considered to be one of the best-known Jesuit priests in Australia and had the nickname "The Mighty Atom". Biography Early years Albert Power was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1870. His education started at Belvedere College, Dublin, and continued at Tullabeg College, County Offaly. After Tullabeg College he studied at Milltown Park Theological College, Dublin. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1906 in the Society of Jesus. Career After his ordination, Power became the director of studies at Riverview College (now called Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview) in Sydney for six years (c. 1910). Power returned to Europe to study philosophy and literature in Valkenburg, Holland. He was there for two years and then returned to Milltown Park Theological College, Dublin, to study the same subjects. He lectured in theology, Scripture and ecclesiastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mighty Atom (Thunderbirds)
"The Mighty Atom" is an episode of '' Thunderbirds'', a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment. Written by Dennis Spooner and directed by David Lane, it was first broadcast on 30 December 1965 on ATV Midlands as the 14th episode of Series One. It is the sixth episode in the official running order. Set in the 2060s, the series follows the exploits of International Rescue, an organisation that uses technologically-advanced rescue vehicles to save human life. The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, founder of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the organisation's main vehicles: the ''Thunderbird'' machines. In "The Mighty Atom", the Tracys' nemesis the Hood attacks atomic irrigation plants in Australia and the Sahara. Plot Some time before the creation of International Rescue, the Hood is spying on an atomic-powered irrigation plant in an Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Atom (TV Series)
is a Japanese black-and-white Tokusatsu live-action TV drama that aired on MBS from March 7, 1959 to May 28, 1960 for a total of 65 episodes split into five parts. Production ''Tetsuwan Atomu'' was produced for Mainichi Broadcasting System, sponsored by Lotte Corporation, by Matsuzaki Production, founded by Keiji Matsuzaki, who worked with Eiji Tsuburaya as a special effects director before the war and was a Toho producer. It is the first adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''Mighty Atom'' (a.k.a. ''Astro Boy ''Astro Boy'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. It was serialized in Kobunsha's ''Shōnen'' from 1952 to 1968. The 112 chapters were collected into 23 volumes by Akita Shoten. Da ...'') manga comic book series and predates the 1963 '' Mighty Atom'' (''Astro Boy'') anime. Plot The series condenses the original's science fiction elements, more in line with the detective stories of the time, with a focus on fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddy Kilowatt
Reddy Kilowatt is a cartoon character that served as a corporate spokesman for electricity generation in the United States and other countries for nearly one hundred years. Currently, the Reddy Kilowatt trademark is owned by Xcel Energy. Description Reddy Kilowatt is drawn as a stick figure whose body, limbs, and hair are made of stylized lightning, lightning bolts and whose bulbous head has a light bulb for a nose and AC power plugs and sockets, wall outlets for ears. Conception Reddy Kilowatt made his first published appearance on March 14, 1926, in an advertisement in ''The Birmingham News'' for the Alabama Power Company (APC). The character was the brainchild of the company's 40-year-old commercial manager, Ashton B. Collins Sr. Like other electric utilities of the period, APC was seeking to grow consumer demand for electrical power. Commercially viable Alternating current, AC generating stations had begun powering North American streets and homes by the end of the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Atom (1988 Video Game)
''Astro Boy'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. It was serialized in Kobunsha's ''Shōnen'' from 1952 to 1968. The 112 chapters were collected into 23 volumes by Akita Shoten. Dark Horse Comics published an English translation in 2002. The story follows Astro Boy, an android young boy with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tenma after the recent death of his son Tobio. Eventually, Astro is sold to a robot circus run by Hamegg, but is saved from his servitude by Professor Ochanomizu. Astro becomes a surrogate son to Ochanomizu who creates a robotic family for Astro and helps him to live a normal life like an average human boy, while accompanying him on his adventures. ''Astro Boy'' has been adapted into three anime series produced respectively by the first incarnation of Mushi Production and its direct successor Tezuka Productions, with a fourth in development. The manga was originally produced for TV as ''Astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
